Johannis Jacobi Scheuchzeri, Tigurini, medicinæ doctoris ... Herbarium diluvianum by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer(
Book
)4
editions published
in
1723
in
Latin
and held by
104 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Rare first work on the palaeobotany of Switserland. "Scheuchzer's masterpiece, in which he gives for the first time a systematic
representation of petrifactions and thereby establishes the most important branche of palaeontology: the palaeo-botany" (Fueter).
This is the important second edition, containing 14 plates instead of only 10 as in the first one of 1709 and an Appendix,
published here for the first time, in which Scheuchzer attempts a classification of fossil plants according to Tournefort.
Each of the 14 splendid plates, giving together exact reproductions of more than one hundred fossils, is dedicated to a different
contemporary scientist, among them Isaac Newton, Herman Boerhaave, etc